Oxitec British company specializing in biotechnology, has gotten permission to experience an amazing technique to reduce the spread of the mosquito that causes dengue disease; The experiment was conducted in Brazil, more precisely in the city of Piracicaba, in the state of San Pablo, where they were released millions of genetically modified mosquitoes. These mutant male mosquitoes are carrying a gene passed to the larvae and kills them before they can reproduce; according to the article published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, so a significant reduction in the rate of reproduction of the Aedes aegypti variety of mosquito that transmits dengue, whose area of maximum concentration is in Piracicaba would cause, the city where the experiment was conducted. Currently, Oxitec is waiting for authorization from the US Food and Drug US to conduct similar tests in Florida.
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